Bug#557425: lenny->squeeze upgrade -> system no longer bootable

Wed Jan 20 02:00:13 UTC 2010

forcemerge 554790 558748
thanks

(this reply addresses only #558748, not the other cloned bugs)

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:09:49AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> retitle -2 upgrades should run grub-install as a safe default
> severity -2 serious
> [...]

Yes it should, but it isn't trivial.  For starters, it doesn't even
know which device it's supposed to install to, unless the user
tells.

We have a debconf template for that, but it has some reliability problems,
see #554790 for details.

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